Happy, intense absorption in any work, which is to be brought as near to perfection as possible, this is a state of being with God, and the men who have not known it have missed life itself.’ – D. H. Lawrence Oh, my. How has work become drudgery for so...

You know the feeling, fellow writer. You’ve done all the right things. She wanted you up by 5 a.m., before the dogs rose even, before the husband stopped snoring, before the neighbors rolled out their trash cans, and, by God, you did it, day after day. This is...

Sustainability, as I tell students, is about the perseverance of hope through the manifestation of change. I recently returned from my first journey to the American South, to Mississippi, a place I’d regarded as one with as many tears in its cultural canvas as a...

It’s a big word, “movement.” It conjures up rhizomatic connections of like-mindedness, of collective spirit in motion toward a common goal or vision. It might be in the best interest of organizations that brand themselves as LOHAS to describe LOHAS as a movement...

I won a writing contest in September of 2012. As my jaw bounced up and off of the stage when the emcee announced my novel’s title, my first thought was of me thirty years before shelving that manuscript thinking “everyone wants to be a writer.”...

“It’s all about you, baby.” In the context of Conscious Capitalism (CC)–that intriguing notion that we can use the market economy to repair the social and environmental havoc we’ve wreaked using it in the first place — that...